Research Abstracts Online
January 2009 - March 2010

Winona State University
College of Science and Engineering
Physics Department

PI: Nathan Moore

GPU Computing and Numerical Electrostatics

These researchers are developing a numerical electrostatics simulation. The "toy” problem, investigating the field created between the earth and a thundercloud, is primarily a vehicle for learning how to re-write code to best perform on an NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) with NVIDIA’s CUDA library. Initial development was performed on small GPUs, and the researchers are using the resources at the SDVL to further understand the code that is ported to run on a GPU.